Your district councils

There are two kinds of local government councils in New Zealand - the regional authority (regional council) and the territorial authority (district council). Each of these has different responsibilities.

Northland's district councils are responsible for services such as:

rates collection

dog registrations

fresh water supply

rubbish collection and disposal, litter control

sewage treatment

parks, reserves and leisure facilities

roads and streetlighting, control of land subdivision

building and resource consents processing, animal control

libraries

LIMs / PIMs

cemeteries

food premises, liquor licensing and health inspection

noise control

parking control

Some services and functions are carried out by both types of authority: